Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on various contemporary societies.

• Student can identify and describe common traits that define cultures and culture regions.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on various contemporary societies.

• Student can identify and describe common traits that define cultures and culture regions.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

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Spanish Directions:

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Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and locate major physical and human geographic features such as landforms, water bodies, and urban centers of various places and regions.

• Student can identify and analyze ways people have adapted to the physical environment in various places and regions.

• Student can trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and trade.

Standards Addressed

• Student can trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and tradition.

• Student can identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on various contemporary societies.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

Standards Addressed

• Student can trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and tradition.identify and describe the historical influence of individuals or groups on various contemporary societies.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

Standards Addressed

• Student can trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and trade.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

• Student can explain the relationships that exist between societies and their architecture, art, music, and literature.

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and explain the geographic factors responsible for patterns of population in places and regions.

• Student can identify and locate major physical and human geographic features such as landforms, water bodies, and urban centers of various places and regions.

• Student can identify geographic factors such as location, physical features, transportation corridors and barriers, and distribution of natural resources that influence a society's political relationships.

Southern Africa

The Sahara and the Sahel

African Savanna

Oceans and Sea around Africa

Standards Addressed

• The student can describe ways in which the factors of production (natural resources, labor,, capital, entrepreneurs) influence the economies of various contemporary societies.

• The student can identify and give examples of governments with rule by one, few, or many.

• The student can compare ways in which various societies …organize government and how they function.

• The student can explain how opportunities for citizens to participate in and influence the political process vary among various contemporary societies.

Standards Addressed

• Student can trace characteristics of various contemporary societies in regions that resulted from historical events or factors such as colonization, immigration, and trade.

• Student can describe the social, political, economic, and cultural contributions of individuals and groups from various societies, past and present.

• Student can compare characteristics of institutions in various contemporary societies.

Read the three articles before completing the graphic organizer.

Judaism

Islam

Christianty

Standards Addressed

• Student can identify and locate major physical and human geographic features of landforms, water bodies, and urban centers.

• Student can explain the geographic factors responsible for the location of economic activities in places and regions in Southwest Asia and North Africa.